Book First Chapters

In Leonard's first original e-book, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (featured in "Pronto" and "Riding the Rap") returns to the Eastern Kentucky coal-mining country of his youth. When Boyd Crowder, a mail-order-ordained minister who doesn't believe in paying his income taxes, decides to blow up the IRS building in Cincinnati, Givens is asked by the local marshal to intervene. This sets up an inevitable confrontation between two men on opposite sides of the law who still have a lingering respect for each other.

John Grisham's new novel is a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it.

In this book, David Kessler tells for the first
time the thrilling detective story of how the
underdog FDA -- while safeguarding the
nation's food, drugs, and blood supply --
finally decided to take on the tobacco industry
and how it won.

As the go-to guy in Las Vegas, Jack Molloy thought he knew it all, but that was before he inherited half of the New York Hawks and found out that, next to the denizens of the country of Football, he was just a babe in the woods.

Adam Fifield recaptures the
snowy night when he, at the age of eleven,
along with his mother, father, and younger
brother, waited to welcome 15-year-old Soeuth
into the family. The boy shuffled in, short and
scrawny, a baseball cap shading his downcast
eyes. He spoke not a word, yet a silent terror
hovered around him.

An exceptionally talented undercover policewoman, Grace Flint nearly dies in a botched sting operation. Months later, physically healed but psychologically scarred, she gets an unexpected clue about her attacker, and disappears on a mission of revenge -- unaware that she is about to pull the first string that will unravel a vastly complex web of international treachery, extortion, and murder.

In "Singing My Him Song," Malachy McCourt tells us how he went from living the
headlong and heedless life of a world-class drunk to becoming a sober, loving
father and grandfather, still happily married after thirty-five years. We meet the
woman who stood by his side all those years, watch as they build a family
together, and listen to McCourt pursues a career of surprising successes and
comic missteps.